A year after announcing their partnership, the iconic Italian fashion house Prada and Texas-based Axiom Space unveiled their new line of designer spacesuits for NASA at the annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, Italy.

The newly unveiled Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit based on NASA’s iconic designs will be used for the American space agency’s upcoming Artemis III mission, which will see the first moon landing by a human since Apollo 17 in 1972.

“Our elite teams have redefined spacesuit development, establishing new pathways to innovative solutions and applying a state-of-the-art design approach for the AxEMU,” Axiom Space President Matt Ondler said in a statement. “The Axiom Space-Prada partnership has set a new foundational model for cross-industry collaboration, further expanding what’s possible in commercial space.”

According to Axiom Space, the new spacesuits include soft and hard joints for an increased range of motion, which they said will enable astronauts to walk on the Moon more effortlessly, perform more precise geological and scientific

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Author: Jason Nelson